A couple of people have commented to the effect that: It's unlucky to sew with green, because green dyes were notorious for coming off onto your garment or project.
What's interesting about this is that just about any dark or dark-ish color can "crock" or rub off dye like this -- black or red, for instance. But for some reason, this seems to be the thing everybody says specifically when trying to rationalize the idea that basting with _green_ is "unlucky" -- as though there were something particularly unstable about green dye, which as far as I know is no worse than other deep colored dyes.
I did an experiment once with different colors of embroidery thread, stitching them on white cloth and then pulling the stitches out to see whether they left marks. ALL the dark colors left marks. I tried washing and drying the embroidery thread and repeating the experiment, and this time there were no marks when I pulled the thread out. I still have a piece of cloth somewhere with "Washed thread leaves no marks" stitched into it. :)
I suppose the moral is that it's not a good idea to baste with _any_ dark or bright colored thread, except on fabric that's darker than the thread is. I usually tuck a spool of cheap bargain-bin pastel thread into my work box somewhere just for basting with.
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